St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-27


repaired to the main building and at
O'Clock they, to the number of almost
$50, assembled in the chapel to partake
of the commencement dinner, served by
Dorner. After full justice had been
done the ample repaSt President
| Northrup arose to announce the first
toast. 1t would be difficult to imagine
the versatile doctor in a position for
which he does not seem especially
fitted. He has long enjoyed reputation
as public speaker always suiting his
words to the character of his audience,
whatever it be; he is equally at home in
laying a corner stone before an audi
ence of workingmen, talking to spe-
cific nationality, on the lecture plat
form, in the pulpit. His after dinner
speeches are deServedly famous, and
yesterday there was added to his
laurels that of sympOsiarch. In
inviting his friends to the
feast of reason he spoke of
the year just closed. and the successful
work accomplished i'll every department
of the university-one of the best years
| in its history. He mentioned the new
| building of mechanic arts, and with
| prophetic eye pictured the new science
hall and students Christian association
| building, both to be erected in the near
| future. He referred i'll humorous vein
| to the coming speeches, hoped they
might be short and bright, "a kaleido-
scope exhibition of learning and elO-
euence." He regretted the absence of
the venerable president of the board of
regents. Gen. Sibley, of st. Paul, and
spoke i'll Mandatory terms of that absent
| friend. In introducing eX-GOv. Ramsey
| the president was most felicitOus. lie
characterized him as man who had
filled almost every Office in the gift of
the people of Minnesota. 1t means
much to fill an office-it is no unusual
thing to be placed in one only to rattle
around in it-but Gov. Ramsey had
filled every one Of them. Gov. Ramsey
returned DR.. Northrup's compliment
with interest when he rose to speak.
He touched little on the history of the
university, saying it was conceived in
| territorial days, fully twenty years
before the people were ready for
it; he was one of its first
trustees and its inception was like start
ing cemetery in a new Western town,
very slow process, because nobody
was ready to be buried, and nobody
seemed ready for the school; but per-
haps that premature effort is now bear
ing fruit in the widening interest that is
being manifested in the institution. In
telligence, culture, is keeping pace with
| Minnesota. You had almost as many
people in that hall this morning as there
| were living in Minnesota when this in
stitution was founded. He hoped for
| the full fruitiOn of the best hopes for
| the growth and success of the uIfiverS-
ity.
President B. J. Gray, of the st. Cloud
normal school, expressed himself as
being impressed with the prophetic
character of the people Of the North
| west and the little with which history
| has had to do here. Graduates of our
| institutions of learning are and should
be very prominent factor in making
| the state, and he congratulated the
| class of 1887 on their evidently sincere
| intention to do the work of educated
citizens of the commonwealth. Supt.
j. E. Bradley, of the city schools, was
received with applause. He was I'M
pressed with two things in the
Northwest, one was the broad
and deep foundations and the massive
proportions of the buildings now being
erected, the other an evident Impotence
and haste, the latter should be overcome.
| Educational affairs mature slowly, and
young people should patiently complete
| a full course of study before leaving
school. He repudiated the idea that the
mass of young men and women should
be necessarily deprived of a good edu-
cation. Eugene A. Dye, superintendent
| of public instruction in Dakota, was
| called upon, land after referring with just
! pride to his own people, lie gave prac-
| teal talk, characterized by sound stnSe,
| on the Importance of thoroughly quail
flied faculty in any educational institu-
ton. Brief addresses were made by
DR.. Albert Shaw, who urged graduates
IF other institutions who had come tO
the Twin Cities to reside to give loyal
support to this state university, and by
| Assistant State Superintendent Pender-
CAST and Prof. Price, of the Baptist
| Theological seminary, of Chicago, who
| said that, having examined the univer-
sity thoroughly, he was prepared to
oppose the founding of Baptist uni
versity in Minnesota SO long
as this institution maintains its
present high standard. Responses were
made for almost, if not all, the classes
that have graduated Of these the best
was that of Miss Mary L. Benton, who,
the president announced, was the first
graduate to receive degree from him.
Miss Benton spoke for the lady gradu-
ateS and for her class of 'S4. Her adj
dress, wholly eXtempore, was delivered
with fiuency which the gentlemen
might emulate with advantages; she
urged upon the sex the requirement of
an education which should make
its possessor at all times
a womanly, woman, whatever be
| The address of the day most worthy of
public attention and thought was that
of Fred B. Snyder, of the class of 81.
Mr.. Snyder made a strong plea for the
formation of one grand educational inSti-
tuition in the state, upon the plan OF the
Oxford university of England. He dep
recated the foundation of so many small
and necessarily weak institutions Of
learning, when the money lnvested,i if
put into hall of the state university.
would accomplish far more good.
He recognized the necessity for a few
sectarian colleges, but argued that it
is far better to have one institution that
could compete with the best in the land.
than dozens of inferior schools. He
would have the Sectarian schools form a
part of the university. The Episcopal
church now has hall in Michigan uni
versity at Ann Arbor, and that church
| will soon ask, if it has not already done
so, our regents for permission to erect a
hall on this campus. viii the regents
welcome her or drive her forth?
Let us stop building, up a host
of separate schools, and by concentrate
ing our forces build up Yale ia the
Northwest. The remaining speakers
were Prof. J. H. Lewis, rs; Henry
Hastings Sibley Roswell, 'S5; Timothy
Burns, 70; Andrew Holt, 80; DR.. H. G.
Leonard, ~; w. w. Clark, 'S2; Julius
E. Miner, 70; J. w. Perkins, III; E. A.
Henderson, '76. In closing the exercises
of the day DR.. Northrup took occasion
to give the alumni mental roasting for
their evident lack of interest in
their alma mater. He announced
| q meeting Of the Alumni for tho Wadnao